The reason that I like them is because I hate to store shop. Besides, in BFE there's not much to choose from in retail. The service is pretty good. As a business model, I was glad that they fired some customers last year.

AMZ is some of the best trades that I've made. I made 85k on 2 trades over ~3 months.

It's a little sad that Sears had the entire distribution setup AND the stores and just totally blew it on jumping on the internet bandwagon. They had everything Amazon has taken years to build but totally blew it all.

To be fair, Sears was killing off / screwing up the catalog business side long before the internet became a thing. I remember when the Sears Catalog store in my town became a full blown brick and mortar Sears, as they moved away from the fulfillment side.

Anyone ever had the shipping service play games with your prime shipment?

I recently had USPS mark a shipment "hold at request of recipient". Of course I didn't do that. Then later in the day it changed to "delivered", but didn't actually get delivered until a day later.

I have a friend who works at UPS in the data analytics on the Amazon team. He said they have to send weekly reports to Amazon on the percentage of on time packages, and some routes have consistent anomalies.

Interestingly there doesn't seem to be much automation of data between Amazon and the carriers. He said he actually gets .csv files from them by email and has to manually generate reports!

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I've had the "delivered" show up the day before I actually get something a fair amount of times